Ardlarach

Ardlarach ANR R NT658990 1

Ardlarach 1960 Eggeling 1985, 244

Another recent name, like Ardcarran it is based on G à(i)rd ‘height’ or àrd ‘high’, the second element being G làrach f. ‘site of a building, vestige; ruin’ (Dwelly). ‘[T]he “height of the ruin”, the ridge west of the Chapel’ (Eggeling 1985, 244), the southern end of Black Heugh. Eggeling code R.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 3